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I have been recently tasked with looking into upgrading the libraries we used for full text search on a site that I help maintain. Search has become a pretty integral part of our site and performance has gotten worse over time. We currently use Compass to power the full text searches, but it is no longer […]

As part of a project at work we’ve been migrating from using ANT scripts and maintaining our libraries manually to using maven both for the build and for library/dependency management. As part of that project we have also been updating our libraries which some haven’t been updated in 4 years. We have also decided to […]

Back in October of 2010 I decided to try to see if I could cancel my cable and switch to Netfix and over the air broadcasts. Believe it or not my wife was the one who first proposed the idea. I did some research and started by buying a digital antenna. I did my research […]